Originally Posted by
chancechumley
Everyone seems to know it, but I can’t get a straight answer on why! For example, why is aerial photography and selling that imagery illegal using your platform? Thanks in advance.
FAR 91.319 governs experimental ops limits. FAA's mandate is to ENSURE aviation safety and spare the non-flying public from poorly built kit planes. Opening up to specific uses would be Pandora's box so its better to just keep it closed if you are the FAA.
Now is we could get the FAA mandate to read "reasonably reduce risk" in aviation safety then I think we could probably have commercial use of some experimental. But as it stands right now....ENSURE means driving risk to "zero".